Forcing ints to initialize to 0 msvc++

Question

Is there any compiler setting or other way to force an int to be initialized to 0?

Answer 1

Is there any compiler setting or other way to force an int to be initialized to 0?

Unfortunately, there is no way in the language and if the compiler offers such a setting it goes against the standard and therefore should not be used.

May I ask why you need this? Is explicit initialization not enough? Or would you like to be warned when uninitialized memory i used? The latter can be achieved using valgrind's memory profiler.

Answer 2

Statics are always initialized to the default value (which for an int is 0). But you don't want them, do you?